{"id":397,"date":"2008-08-20T21:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:28","slug":"design-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/08\/design-signatures","title":{"rendered":"Design Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time over the last month designing a new blog that I&#8217;ll be launching soon, and in doing so, I&#8217;ve become aware of some design and coding habits which, when put together, clearly compromise a bit of a &#8220;design signature&#8221;.  If you&#8217;ve designed more than five sites in your site, you likely have a design signature too, although it&#8217;s probably different than most other designers and coders you know. You may not even know you have it, but you do.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of what makes up my design signature:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I start with a <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/eric\/tools\/css\/reset\/\" target=\"_blank\">CSS reset<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For column layouts, I float every column (usually left but sometimes both left and right)<\/li>\n<li>I use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positioniseverything.net\/easyclearing.html\" target=\"_blank\">clearfix class<\/a> to clear all of my containers<\/li>\n<li>I use dotted underlines for body-copy links that change to solid underlines on hover, and no underlines for links that appear within navigational lists<\/li>\n<li>I use desaturated colors for visited links<\/li>\n<li>I employ fixed-width centered layouts using a container div, auto margins, and a center text-align on the body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I almost can&#8217;t even think about producing a page template until all of these elements are in place, and no design would feel right to me without them. Additionally, I know the browser implications of them so well that I scarcely have to even test in IE anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any design signatures of your own?  If so, what are they and how do they affect your work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time over the last month designing a new blog that I&#8217;ll be launching soon, and in doing so, I&#8217;ve become aware of some design and coding habits which, when put together, clearly compromise a bit of a &#8220;design signature&#8221;. If you&#8217;ve designed more than five sites in your site, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}